Waiver Wizard was built with one goal in mind: to give fantasy football managers the competitive edge they need to win their leagues. We believe that in fantasy football, timing is everything—and being first to act on player news can be the difference between a championship and second place.
Fantasy football doesn't stop on Wednesday morning. Between waiver periods, things happen—practice reports drop, injuries get announced, depth charts shift. The managers who win are the ones who act on this news first, not the ones who find out hours later.
Waiver Wizard monitors your league's available players 24/7 and alerts you the moment projections jump or statuses change. No more constantly refreshing ESPN or scrolling Twitter—we watch so you can act.
Waiver Wizard is a product of Fantasy Sports Analytics LLC. We got tired of missing breaking news—the mid-week practice reports, the Friday injury updates, the Sunday morning inactives. By the time we'd check, someone else had already made the move. So we built a tool to fix that—starting with the founder's own league, and now for managers like you.
Waiver Wizard — Fantasy Sports Analytics LLC102 17th Ave NW PMB 1017Rochester, MN 55901You connect your ESPN or Sleeper league, and from that point we know two things most fantasy tools do not: your exact scoring settings, and which players are genuinely available in your league right now. Both matter more than they sound like they should. A generic "top waiver pickups" list is useless if the top four are already rostered in your league, and a player's projected points are a different number in a half-PPR league than in a full-PPR one.
A set of background jobs runs on a fixed schedule, independent of how many people use the service. They pull player projections and injury designations, compare each one against the last value we stored, and look for movement that actually clears a meaningful threshold rather than statistical noise. When something moves, we check it against your roster and your league's available player pool before deciding whether it is worth telling you about. Scoring is recalculated using your league's own settings, not a league-average approximation.
When a player gets ruled out, the useful information is rarely the injured player — it is who benefits. So an injury alert names the next man up on that same team and, if he is on your roster, the best replacement available in your league at that position, each with a link that takes you straight to the add page.
We are honest about the limits. Projections come from ESPN and Sleeper and we do not pretend to improve on them; what we do is notice when they change and work out what that means for your specific roster. We are not affiliated with ESPN, Sleeper, or the NFL. And no tool wins your league for you — see our disclaimer.
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Matthew Ustby
Founder
Matt founded Waiver Wizard in 2025 after one too many missed waiver windows in his own fantasy league — he built the alerts he wished he'd had, then decided to share them with the community. He's a lifelong fantasy football fan who's always looking for new ways to stay connected with fellow managers and make the game more fun to play. He is responsible for everything published on this site.
matt@fantasywaiverwizard.comThree desks are responsible for everything we publish: a blog desk covering weekly strategy and analysis, a guides desk maintaining the evergreen reference library, and an automated desk that produces the daily player deep dives and the weekly Board rankings. The first two are bylined Jordan Voss and Sam Whitfield, which are desk names rather than individual people — we would rather say that here than let you assume otherwise. The automated desk publishes under the Waiver Wizard Editorial Team byline, and every article it produces carries a visible AI-assistance label. Editorial responsibility for all of it rests with Fantasy Sports Analytics LLC and with Matthew Ustby, named above.